Sentences with phrase «about embryonic development»

Part of the challenge to identifying the correct genetic and molecular programming to coax hPSCs in to colonic organoids has been a lack of data about embryonic development of the organ, according to the authors.

It was all sequentially programmed, as if the creator booted up the cosmos at creation and let it run, or, as Robert Chambers put it when talking about embryonic development, «like Mr Babbage programming his Engine».

One important fact about embryonic development that is often overlooked is that between two - thirds and four - fifths of all embryos that are generated through standard sexual reproduction are spontaneously aborted.

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When Kaufman, Zon and colleagues looked to see what was different about these early cancer cells, they found that crestin and the other activated genes are the same ones turned on during zebrafish embryonic development — specifically, in the stem cells that give rise to the pigment cells known as melanocytes, within a structure called the neural crest.

Lee and McPherron discovered the gene about five years ago while examining genes known to regulate embryonic growth and development.

The researchers used this live - imaging technique to study fly embryos at a key stage in their development, approximately two hours after the onset of embryonic life where the genes undergo fast and furious transcription for about one hour.

Integrating this new information into computational models, my colleagues and I predicted that about 5 percent of HARs function as noncoding RNAs, while most are enhancers that control gene expression during embryonic development.9

Lanner is attempting to edit genes in human embryos to learn more about how the genes regulate early embryonic development.

It'll be tough for us not to continue down this road, in spite of some serious ethical questions, when most of what we know about human embryonic development comes from studying frogs, fish, chickens and mice.